Leadership Team

Frode Odegard studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute (PII), which develops new management science and technologies for building the organizations of the future.

Over the last 25 years, Frode has pioneered the reinvention of industrial-era organizational design for modern organizations that primarily do knowledge work. He identified the combination of decentralization and exponential technologies as marking the start of the transition to a post-industrial civilization. He gave his first keynote on the impact of AI agents on the orchestration of work, branding, business models, strategy, and industry transformation in 2016. In 2019 he launched PII’s leadership community, the Post-Industrial Forum, which has hosted speakers from leading organizations such as NVIDIA, OpenAI, Cisco, Salesforce, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Palo Alto Networks, and Hitachi.

Frode is the author of a forthcoming book on the post-industrial transition. A serial entrepreneur since his high school years, Frode has a multidisciplinary background that stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom. He has a passion for history, linguistics, disruptive technologies, philosophy, and Iwama-style Aikido.

Mansoor Khan leads strategy and growth for the Institute. He spent more than two decades in technology services, most recently as CEO and board member of Veltris, where he led a 10X growth phase and a private-equity raise. Earlier he helped scale Terralogic from inception to more than 1,000 people, and led the Americas West region at Aricent, now Capgemini Engineering. He advises and invests in startups and growth-stage companies. Mansoor holds a Master’s in Management Studies from BITS Pilani.

Eythor Ivar Jonsson leads the Institute’s research program. He is also President of Akademias and of the Center for Corporate Governance in Iceland, and Vice President of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). In 2006 he founded an advisory board program with Copenhagen Business School that has since created advisory boards for more than 200 fast-growing Nordic companies, and he has developed corporate governance programs with Nasdaq Iceland, the Iceland Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Icelandic Industries, and the major accounting firms. He has published more than 700 articles on business and economics. Eythor holds a doctorate in business administration from Henley Business School, University of Reading.

Tom Pai is the Institute’s Chief Financial Officer. He has more than 25 years of financial and operations experience in technology, media, and consumer products companies, from startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, has helped raise over $150M in venture financing, and played a key role in exits totaling $500M. Tom is also founder and CEO of Sage Development Company, a real estate development and investment firm focused on the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously he was a partner at Ravix Group, CFO and COO of several venture-backed companies, and a member of Bank of America’s venture capital and private equity group. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a degree in computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara.